Custom .NET

Flow has support for using third party .net assemblies. All public static methods with primitive types as arguments can be executed from a machine step in any type of workflows.

Follow these steps to setup a custom connector:

1. Run NovaCura.Flow.Connector.Wrapper.exe from your command line console.

   • It is located in Flow Designer program folder.

   • First argument is output connector dll name, example: CustomConnector.dll

   • Second argument is input assembly path.

   • If input assembly has dependencies to other assemblies those can be entered as arguments. For example: NovaCura.Flow.Connector.Wrapper.exe CustomConnector.dll CustomAssembly.dll CustomUtil.dll

2. Copy output dll to the current studio version (%appdata%\{{version}}) and to bin/CustomConnectors* folder located in Server installation folder.

3. Add a connector element to CustomConnectors.xml located in bin/CustomConnectors folder in Server installation folder.

   <!-- Change 'species' to a unique technical name --> 
    <!-- Change 'displayName' to a suitable display name --> 
    <!-- Change 'assemblyname' to the name of the output dll exluding .dll, in the example below the file is named CustomConnector.dll --> 
   <connector 
    species="custom_connector_name"
    displayName="DotNet API Custom Connector" 
    assemblyname="CustomConnector"
    type="NovaCura.Flow.Connector.Wrapper.ConnectorWrapper" 
    uitype="NovaCura.Flow.ApiConnector.UI.ApiConnectorUI" 
    uiassemblyname="NovaCura.Flow.ApiConnector.UI" /> 

4. Start Flow Designer and verify that a new connector type with the previous specified display name exists in Connectors page under Environments when adding a new connector.

5. Add the new connector and enter a suitable name.

6. The new connector should now exist in all machine step configurations.